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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,185 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:48 PM Jun 2018

Foreigners Unsure Why Anyone Would Want to Travel to U.S. at This Point

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Shortly after the United States Supreme Court upheld Donald J. Trump’s controversial travel ban, millions of people from other countries expressed puzzlement that anyone would want to travel to the United States at this juncture.

In interviews with people from around the world, respondents said that the travel ban struck them as unnecessary, because the United States was not currently on the list of the top hundred countries to which they would consider travelling.

When asked to name the reasons they felt that a travel ban was superfluous, many of those interviewed cited the United States’s gun violence and crumbling infrastructure, as well as its broken educational and health-care systems, while others singled out its President’s startling disrespect for democratic norms and human rights.

Given those views, most of the foreigners interviewed said they found the news of the Supreme Court’s decision baffling. “When I heard that the United States was having a travel ban, I assumed that was to keep people from leaving,” one respondent said, echoing the sentiments of many.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/foreigners-unsure-why-anyone-would-want-to-travel-to-us-at-this-point?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20062618&CNDID=25394153&spMailingID=13763168&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNjg0NzM5S0&spJobID=1422382928&spReportId=MTQyMjM4MjkyOAS2

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Foreigners Unsure Why Anyone Would Want to Travel to U.S. at This Point (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP
Oh snap ! that last line really brings it home ! donkeypoofed Jun 2018 #1
The gov't claims there are more jobs quartz007 Jun 2018 #2
This is true MontanaMama Jun 2018 #4
count on tourism hitting the skids.... dhill926 Jun 2018 #3
Borowitz rocks! raven mad Jun 2018 #5
 

quartz007

(1,216 posts)
2. The gov't claims there are more jobs
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:56 PM
Jun 2018

Than there are people seeking jobs, currently. May be the good people have fled already?

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
4. This is true
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:44 PM
Jun 2018

and why we should welcome immigrants. What a terrible shit show we’ve got going right now.

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